Here is my second vento- picked it up down in cork,my own car took a slide on the ice,so i needed something cheap and handy to get around in for christmas.

anyway plans are...

JUST DRIVE IT....





after a quick wast








but like all plans. i got carried away and ended up cleaning it up and putting some use to my stock pile of spare parts

a bit of a clean up
my audi pepper pots
8v Gti brakes
Vr6 front splitter
mk3 front with angel eye lights with rusted bonnet soon to be replaced with a new bonnet
5door Gti arches
nice chrome back box
chrome strut brace
G2 coilovers-not sure yet-as i like having a car i can drive and not be worried about speed bumps

and all these are all spare parts. giving myself the challenge to use just the parts i have, and put the car together as fast as possible and get it back out driving.

my new pepper pots



Vr6 front splitter


5door mk3 Gti arches


mk3 golf angel eye lights

gave the car a quick wash today with the power waster.. and had severe laquer peel, i didnt realise the paint on the roof was as bad until the power washer hit it, left big streeks and pulled the laquer right off..



peel of laquer




soo decided to repaint the roof,stared sanding the roof...took to long so back out to the power washer and blasted the paint right off

back into the garage and sanded down all the edges and any laquer that didnt lift. removed one of the rian gutters,





degreased, and the shead warmed and i was ready to paint.

only paint i had was a black...so black it was.





gave the mirrors a lick of paint aswel.. turned up the heat and left it to dry

tomorrow if i have time im going to get the exhaust fitted, and the Vr6 front splitter. im sure i have some mud guards in the garage somewhere aswel.





still debating on the coilovers, as i like the ride height...wel..sortof.

going with the audi pepper pots,so i have to run an adapter,so the wheel will be pushed out a nice bit so not sure how much i can actually drop it.

Nice project

^^^ classic!
Supose theres no point having a dog if you're going doing the barking yourself!!
Nice project... it should look well when its finished!

"only paint i had was a black...so black it was."

love it, good work

Peeperpots on it will look well. imo

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out...cant wait to see the pepper pots on her.

Fit the coilovers!!!

put the car back together, rain gutters back on

fitted the vr6 front splitter aswel



black roof turned out grand, no dribbles so i was happy



also the mirrors turned out grand, had some bugs that stuck to the mirrors and my effort to remove them wasnt great,so stuck a sticker over the marks





have severe laquer peel on the boot,so il either get a boot rack to cover it, or paint it black -same as the roof. not sure yet.

jesus so this is the cheap yoke! ha you're good you can help me paint the passat

have plenty free time now!

I've a boot rack here, never used if your interested.

@cliff what kind of rack of it? whats it made from?

I bought it for my mk1 jetta, could be sprayed black, it's more or less like this one, It's new never used. 60 takes it?

Class project man.. Nice job on the roof

the boot was always bothering me, and after a long drive the lacquer was lifting and looked shoite.

so back out to the power washer and blasted off the rest of the lacquer, cleaned it up, then spent a little while with some masking tape.Never again.took way to dam long.







all masked off and will be painting it tomorrow if there is some better weather





also swapped my Vento front for full mk3 front with a member from here.
so have a new bonnet and grille to go on..take off the rusted bonnet as it kind of had that abandoned car look that i dont really want right now

this is a sweet project
the boot looks like it's going to be deadly
good luck with it!

I am loveing the car man i can t wait to see how she turns out

got some heat into the garage this morning and gave the boot and new grille some paint



let the paint dry and then carefully took off the masking tape

happy how it turned out






also stripped the drivers door, electric window reg was broken, ended up replacing it with a manual (lower middle class ) window winder

haha deadly

Very cool little project. No one could accuse you of ripping anyone off that bootlid looks class.

thanks lads, getting on great with the car, having alot of fun with it..

pretty much anything i want to do with the car...if i have the parts, or i can make it. i'l do it.



picked up a grey mk3 bonnet and grille, painted the grille today, but the bonnet-thinking of having some fun with it



been toying with a few ideas

if i get some time this week going to draw this enlarged across the bonnet,

any updates

Excellent project. Loving the boot.
It's hard to beat a cheap car that you can do whatever you want with.

omg i love the boot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mint! love it! man got mad painting skillz.

since the last update-
iv fitted my roof rack for moving around my surfboards
cleaned it up a little bit more

picked up a very clean set of E30 alloys and put new tires on it- and just been having fun driving it.
plan to cover the entire bonnet in stickers or else do some star wars graphics.







fitted the badge, and cut the vento "cl" part off so now it just reads "vento"



here it is with a trial fit of the new audi pepper pots





and here it is sitting on the E30 alloys-nice and tidy.
have a set of coilovers next to fit.needs to go a bit lower

this is now for sale.

how come andrew? got the other car back driving?

want to move on to something a little bit smaller- and iv driven vento's long enough- time for a change

open to a good offer now

smaller

ha polo...!

polo vr6...

i've too many things on the go at once! letting paint dry as i type this!

this is now my current daily car.

giving it the once over


NCT


I PASSED!!!!!


im sure i could out run them!! LOL


how to fix things

What's your plans for this? Iv got Vento lights and grill if you want to change back and a standard splitter and skirts.

Love seeing stuff like this! Pure on the cheap,great stuff man!

might be interested in the spliter and skirts.
keeping the lights i like the angle eyes and i am currently running with HIDs.

i have my corrado lowering springs suspension in the front, as it failed first time with the standard vento springs. so i need just one standard vento spring(s) thats in good condition. i have one good one and one that nct failed.. but replaced both with my rado ones. but i want to get those springs back in my corrado.

dont really want to do too much to the car, just drive it, maybe a sub and amp and find the bits of the front spliter that i lost on the motorway